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Two of my colleagues at PJ Media saw that headline and both DM’d me, saying, “He’s not wrong.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is a survivor. In the cutthroat world created by Vladimir Putin, he has outlasted several other close advisors to the Russian president, largely because he keeps a low profile and never tries to show up the boss. This has made him the longest-serving foreign minister in Russia’s history.
He’s also a plain-spoken Georgian who never misses a chance to bash the United States and the West. He shares the view with Putin that the Soviet empire collapsed because of the machinations of the U.S., not because of any flaw in the Soviet System.
Yesterday at the UN, Lavrov showed why Putin puts his trust in him.
“You can call this whatever you want to call this, but they are directly at war with us. We can call this a hybrid war, but that doesn’t change the reality,” CNN reported the Russian Foreign Minister said Saturday.
Lavrov added, “They are effectively engaged in hostilities with us, using the Ukrainians as fodder.”
Biden will never admit that what Lavrov is saying is true. The Ukraine conflict is a war to protect democracy, not whittle Russia down to size. It’s a war to protect the world order formed after World War II, not stymie Russia’s imperial ambitions in Eastern Europe and reconstitute the old Soviet Union.
